“You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.” Quote by Cheri Huber
“What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.” FeelingsQualityCompassionDetermineOur Relationship Author:Cheri Huber
“Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.” SelfCompassionAcceptanceSelf Acceptance Author:Alexander Lowen
“Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.” MatterMomentsCompassionSituationEventsHappeningsNo Matter What Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day.” FeelsFeelingsCompassionSituationSadnessDistanceCeaseBotherGoing AwayAppreciatedTrue Feelings Author:Gay Hendricks
“Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.” MeanSelfWholeStrongHealingCompassionBoundsPassionateStormGenerousWillingnessFragileBalancedTwistedNeuroticFrailDiseasedStingy Author:Paula Gunn Allen
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” SpiritualityCompassionEnlightenmentAll ThingsBuddhistIntimacy Author:Dogen
“Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.” TryingHumansWholeCertainValuesHuman BeingsCompassionAspectTreatsGarbageJunkEcosystems Author:Stephen Schwartz
“An important aspect of self-compassion is to be able to empathically hold both parts of ourselves-the self that regrets a past action and the self that took the action in the first place.” FirstsImportantSelfAbleActionPastCompassionRegretAspectSelf Compassion Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.” HeartSelfCareCompassionLongingRadicalDesperateSelf Care Author:Anne Lamott
“We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.” PeopleIfsWayWantNeedsWellsCompassionCostGuiltMeetingsBetter Ways Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg